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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.

Quincy Jones

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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Love Myself People Wings
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself

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